Out on tour to promote their 2021 album, Manic, Wage War played an epic show in Silver Spring, MD on Tuesday, May 16 with Spite and...

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While many are familiar with the second half of Friedrich Nietzsche's quote regarding gazing into the abyss, not all can recite the first...

In the early 2000s, the heavy metal world was in a rather curious state of affairs. Nu-metal was still arguably the biggest sub-genre on...

Between the endless sea of low hanging clouds and the misty rain falling from them, it was a Saturday where good company would be most...

Making their way into the Gramercy Theater, a group of friends discussed the game plan for the evening as their bags and tickets were...

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----- Author's note: this review is dedicated to the memory of Fred Livingston Jr., to our fellow metalheads and their families...

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There is something pure about anonymous art and music, an intimacy of sorts where listeners can focus on the material rather than the...

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----- Author's note: As of this writing, it has been just a couple of days since a terrible train accident happened in Greece. While my...

The year is 1524 and fleet of canoes maneuver softly across the bay towards a mighty ship off the coast of an island called Manahatta. On...